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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
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- Subject: Re: Use BB 2386 with 8MB Fast RAM and more (help)
- Date: 16 Mar 96 10:47:48 +0500
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- On or about 13-Mar-96 23:29:22 Todd M Pederson typed the following words about
- "Re: Use BB 2386 with 8MB Fast RAM and more (help)". My reply is thus...
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- Hi Todd,
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- TMP> In article <2908.6644T682T264@xmission.com>,
- TMP> John S. Burger <jsburger@xmission.com> wrote:
- >>
- >>On or about 11-Mar-96 16:35:22 b0329 typed the following words about "Use BB
- >>2386 with 8MB Fast RAM and more (help)". My reply is thus...
- >>
- >> Hi b0329,
- >>
- >>
- >> b> Hi there
- >>
- >> b> Hopefully my English isn┤t so bad that nobody will understand my problem
- >>
- >> b> Recently I widen my A2000 on my A2630 with 2 MB. Now my A2000 has 1MB b>
- >> Chip RAM and 8MB Fast RAM. I use WB 3.1
- >>
- >> b> Unfortunately I must see that my Bridgeboard SX2386 only work with 6MB
- >> b> Fast RAM (The Bridgboard should be adressed under $800 000 !?). b> When
- >> my A2000 has 8MB Fast RAM, my 32Bit Fast RAM goes from $200 000 to b> $600
- >> 000 (A2630) and my 16Bit Fast RAM goes from $600 000 to $A00 000. b> My
- >> Bridgboard will shown as "Defected" in the Bootmenue (The Screen b> don┤t
- >> turn ro red)
- >>
- >> b> My Question:
- >> b> Is there any possilility to work with 8MB Fast RAM (and more) and with
- >> b> my Bridgboard. ??
- >>
- >>No you can't. You can only have 6megs fast autoconfig ram. The 32 bit ram on
- >>the A2630 is autoconfig. You need to remove 2megs of your 16bit ram and all
- >>will work. Actually the BB only takes up 512K of autoconfig space but you
- >>can only add ram in 2meg chunks so you have to remove 2megs even though you
- >>really only need to remove 512K.
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- TMP> I've had 7 MB Autconfig FastRAM in my A2000. The A2091 lets you
- TMP> jumper it as 2 MB, 1MB or 512 kB.
-
- I always wondered if there were any 16bit memory boards that would let you add
- memory in other than 2meg chunks. If you can jumper the A2091 at 512K you
- should have been able to get 7.5 megs.
-
- >> b> The best case for me is to change the Adresse off my Bridgeboard -if b>
- >> possible (Eventually with a little Rework).
- >>
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